Uncle Silas
Sheridan Le Fanu, 1864
A nervous heiress is sent to live with her mysterious uncle in a decaying mansion, where charm and menace wear the same face.
Sheridan Le Fanu
1814–1873
Le Fanu was editor of the Dublin University Magazine, where Uncle Silas first ran serially in 1864; he wrote much of his fiction after his wife's early death.
Feels like dread, freedom and unease.
What fear does to the body before the mind can decide.
Why did I remain silent and motionless while such an outrage was being committed? If, instead of being a very nervous girl, preoccupied with an undefinable terror of that wicked woman, I had possessed courage and presence of mind, I dare say I might have given an alarm, and escaped from the room without the slightest risk. But so it was; I could no more stir than the bird who, cowering under its ivy, sees the white owl sailing back and forward under its predatory cruise. Books by Sheridan Le Fanu
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